Moths are those “mysterious butterflies" that fly around at night, fluttering at our porch lights or around our windowsills. Midsummer is a great time for spotting these beauties in the northern ...

Tiny light-scattering structures that give today’s butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs. Fossilized mothlike insects from the Jurassic Period bear textured ...

Welcome to National Moth Week! (July 23-31) As an insect enthusiast, I encourage everyone to take a closer look at the vast diversity of moths that fill our world. Butterflies and moths belong to the ...

A few days ago in the garden, I spotted a small but very attractive insect. It was slim, around three quarters of an inch long and had a striking orange and black pattern that was hard to miss. I have ...

Moths and butterflies collectively belong to a big taxonomic group called Lepidoptera. That name means “scale-wing”, referring to the tiny scales that cover the wings of most of these species. The ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

The peppered moth as it looked before the Industrial Revolution and also now that clean-air laws have improved pollution in the United Kingdom. (Olaf Leillinger via Wikipedia) (CN) – Moths that have ...

Anyone who thinks of moths as butterflies' drabber, duller cousins is about to see these nocturnal insects in a new light. A new book of photographs showcases the spectacular colors and patterns of ...

Fossilized moth wings that look blue in death would have been yellow-green in life, a new study finds, suggesting a colorful method of camouflage and warning. The moths probably used their colors some ...

Travelers to the neotropics—the tropical lands of the Americas—might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colorful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest understory are ...

We all love the way butterflies lure us into the garden by day, but the magic doesn’t have to end when the sun goes down.

The Luna Moth, as a winged adult, can live up to a week before it mates, lays eggs and the life cycle begins again. Like most moths it is is mostly seen at night. It's wingspan can be up to 4 1/2 ...